Finally back for an update! Lots of soaping, lots of work, some basement flooding, you know, the usual stuff.
But I wanted to share a few pix and give thanks to all of the recommendations, but especially to @David James, whose recipe I used successfully 6 times (and one time unsuccessfully....stay tuned for a post on Rebatchapalooza aka Who wouldn't want 1.5 kg of guacamole soap??)
I did go with unscented, which ended up having lots of benefits:
1. not trying to please everyone;
2. keeping costs down;
3. no misbehaving FOs.
And the latter freedom allowed me to do some tiger stripes (some of the batters still thickened up more than intended due to the colorants) as well as a side pour that might have a name? I'm pretty sure I didn't invent the technique, but I'd never seen it anywhere so I don't know what it's called (I may be the only soaper who actually doesn't watch many soap videos).
But I wanted to share a few pix and give thanks to all of the recommendations, but especially to @David James, whose recipe I used successfully 6 times (and one time unsuccessfully....stay tuned for a post on Rebatchapalooza aka Who wouldn't want 1.5 kg of guacamole soap??)
I did go with unscented, which ended up having lots of benefits:
1. not trying to please everyone;
2. keeping costs down;
3. no misbehaving FOs.
And the latter freedom allowed me to do some tiger stripes (some of the batters still thickened up more than intended due to the colorants) as well as a side pour that might have a name? I'm pretty sure I didn't invent the technique, but I'd never seen it anywhere so I don't know what it's called (I may be the only soaper who actually doesn't watch many soap videos).
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